John Korchok

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • New Music Concert Series

    Early-onset dementia? Hereditary insanity? Whatever the cause, I am hosting a new music series starting this September. The Ivanhoe Artists of Paterson are allowing me to use the Ivanhoe Wheelhouse, a 19th century mill building with excellent acoustics. All concerts take place on the 3rd Sunday of the month at 1pm. The focus for this…

  • M-Audio NRV-10 – machine gun sound, bad caps

    I’ve had my M-Audio NRV-10 Firewire interface for over 4 years. It’s a combination mixer and audio interface, which I find quit handy. Last time I went to plug it in, I heard a loud repeating percussive static coming from the monitors. My first thought was that the AC-DC adaptor was bad. It’s 12VDC 3500mA,…

  • Mirror of VL1 patch site added

    Ken Berry has been maintaining a page of patches for the VL1/VL1m since 1995. He has very graciously allowed me to mirror this part of his site, ensuring better availablity of these patches to VL1 users. VL1 Patch Mirror

  • Tedesco Studios

    My band ArtCrime recorded a new album for the Unseen Rain label this week and the sessions were at Tedesco Studios in Paramus. Tom Tedesco has been running this homey place for 20 years. I recommend it for several reasons. He has a really nice selection of choice instruments. A very good Steinway, a Hammond…

  • MOTU Timepiece – Great Value

    Here’s one I stumbled on: the MOTU Timepiece II. The current model is the Timepiece AV, which comes with a USB interface. The Timepiece and Timepiece II have an old style Mac OS9 serial interface, one that Apple dropped in 1999. Sounds like a boat anchor? That’s what most people think, and that’s why it’s…

  • Modifying Sculpture patches for Wind Synths

    One of the most powerful Logic softsynths is Sculpture. Most Sculpture patches have been created using keyboards, but it is fairly simple to modify many patches into wind-synth patches. 1. The first order of business is to choose the patch to convert. Patches that are percussive or plucked are not going to work really well…

  • Korg X50 and MicroX Shared Multisamples

    If you’re trying to move patches between the Korg X50 and Korg MicroX, they will only sound the same if they use the same multisamples. Most, but not all of the same multisamples are available on both machines. Here is a PDF that lists the common voices of both machines: Common Multisamples If your patch…

  • ArtCrime Website

    I put together a web site for ArtCrime last week: ArtCrime There’s new music on the Music tab from our recording session of Jan. 30, 2011. Enjoy!

  • ArtCrime Samples

    Samples of ArtCrime’s music are available for your listening pleasure at the music tab of this web site. I recommend you choose the “Highlight” versions where available. Let me know what you think…

  • ArtCrime – New Performance Ensemble

    Arising out of the Bergen County Experimental Musician Meetups, there is a new experimental performance ensemble in Northern New Jersey: ArtCrime! We held our first practice today, which went really well. We probably have the seeds of three pieces from what we worked on today. Members to date include Bob Siebert on kalimba and circuit-bent…

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